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NARA 633

About 80 Bales of which I got about 40 inaccord with the agreement. He said after paying the expenses of that crop that he lost too much to  risk an other crop and turned over the plantation to Mrssr W.D. and T.J. Dupree who are working this year on the same terms in fact taking W Jones place in the lease. to  do and perform all he was to do. Peyton one of my former slaves wrote me last Spring that Mr Jones had not paid him and family. and asked me to try and have Jones to pay him, I wrote to Jones in N York, who replied that he had paid all the hands but Peytons family had paid him in past but quareled with and disrupted him, that he would be in Miss this fall and have it all settled fairly. he owes me a balance which he promised to pay at sometime I have have just heard he will be in Columbus by the 15 Inst. I will be in Macon in 6 or 8 days
Yours Respectfully K McLaren

[[left margin]] The lease is in the hands of Isaac Williams of Columbus. [[/left margin]]